By Todd Haselton |
HTC has been in a tough spot in the U.S. market. To this day I can show friends a new HTC device and the response is almost always “who is that?” It’s not a good place to be in, especially for a manufacturer that makes…
By Maximum PC |
Windows 8 may be struggling, but Internet Explorer is thriving. For years Internet Explorer has been easy to pick on, but for once the Redmond based software giant is bucking the trend. Market share for Internet Explorer has reached an 18-month high, and it seems to have…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple still has the largest global tablet market share, with a 55% grasp on the market, but that’s the lowest market share the iPad has had since it was introduced, ABI Research said in a recent report. In fact, the company’s market share fell 14%…
By Todd Haselton |
Android has an incredible grip on the smartphone operating system market in China. A new report released by Analysys International suggests that Google’s mobile OS has a 90.1 percent grip of all smartphone operating systems. That’s no doubt thanks to ZTE, Samsung and Huawei, all of…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung, Apple and Nokia are the world’s three largest mobile phone makers, but Samsung and Apple alone are responsible for a stunning 46.5% of all smartphone sales around the globe. The two firms were followed by RIM and HTC. The news is from a report…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s iPhone is no longer among the top 5 smartphones with the most market share in China, according to a new report published on Thursday. The iPhone was the 5th most popular smartphone in China during the second quarter but is now behind Samsung, Lenovo,…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft’s Windows Phone mobile operating system is beginning to steal market share from Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform in parts of Europe, according to a new report from research firm Kantar Worldpanel. The group found that Windows Phone has a double-digit market share in Italy (10.4%), the…
By Todd Haselton |
A new report from comScore recently suggested that both Google and iOS are continuing to gain traction in the United States. Google’s Android mobile operating system market share increased 1.4 percentage points in the three-month period ended in July to a 52.2%, while Apple’s iOS…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R is back with an all new show where he rants and raves on various topics in and out of the tech world. On this week’s episode, Jon discusses Research in Motion – the Canadian company that brought the world the BlackBerry. Jon shares…
By Todd Haselton |
Research In Motion is about to make another circle around the drain. The company’s BlackBerry operating system market share is about to be surpassed by Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, according to new data from research firm StatCounter. We’re a little skeptical, however, because StatCounter’s figures…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s new iPad only recently went on sale in China on July 20, following a trademark dispute with Proview, but the company’s entire iPad line was able to garner a 72% share of China’s tablet market during the second quarter of this year. Chinese analytics…
By Todd Haselton |
Android and iOS are the two largest operating systems, so it comes as no surprise that, combined, they powered 85% of all smartphones shipped during the second quarter of this year. The figure was published in a report by research firm IDC on Wednesday, but…
By Todd Haselton |
U.S. smartphone shipments slid 5.4% during the second quarter of this year to 24 million units shipped, according to a fresh report released by Strategy Analytics on Monday, which also said it was one of the “slowest growth rates ever experienced” in the U.S. smartphone…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple revealed in its earnings statement on Tuesday that it sold 17 million iPads during its fiscal third quarter of this year. In a report from Strategy Analytics released on Wednesday, the research firm said that the company’s iPad shipments represented 68.3% of the overall global…
By Brandon Russell |
With smartphone ownership in the U.S. on the rise, Strategy Analytics is projecting that Windows Phone will capture 4 percent of the U.S. smartphone market in 2012. Microsoft’s operating system has been rising steadily since 2011 — last year Windows Phone sat at 3 percent…
By Brandon Russell |
According to data from comScore, iOS marketshare grew at a faster rate in the U.S. during the February to May period. However, of the 30,000 owners surveyed, Android accounted for just over half of U.S. smartphone subscribers, sitting at 50.9 percent. Smartphone ownership was boosted…
By Todd Haselton |
IDC released its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report on Wednesday in which it provided the current market share values for iOS, Android and other smartphone operating systems. The research firm projects that iOS and Android will both peak in popularity before 2016, when Windows…
By Todd Haselton |
Android and iOS are currently dominating the global smartphone landscape. A new report from IDC suggests that Android has a 59% market share while Apple has a 23% grip on the market. Those percentages are out of 152.3 million smartphones that were shipped during the first…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s iPad helped the company maintain the top spot as the world’s largest shipper of mobile PCs according to a recent report published by NPD. The company shipped roughly 17.2 million mobile PCs during the first quarter of this year, up 118% year-over-year and representing…
By Todd Haselton |
Android’s growth doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon. According to a new report released by Gartner on Wednesday, Android currently has a 56.1% share of the global smartphone OS market, followed by iOS with a 22.9% share, Symbian with an 8.6% share…
By Todd Haselton |
The figures are out: Android and iOS are stomping all over Windows Phone and BlackBery in the United States. Is there room for a third operating system? Recent numbers from Nielsen certainly don’t suggest it. Here’s what’s going on: Apple has tackled both the premium…
By Todd Haselton |
IDC released a new report on Wednesday that suggests Android will have a larger global tablet market share by 2015 than iOS. IDC said Android’s recent growth was in part fueled by the success of Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire tablet. Android’s market share jumped to…
By Todd Haselton |
Is Apple really dominating the tablet market? Sure it is. But maybe not as much as a new report from Forrester Research suggests. The research firm said recently that, until September of last year, Apple had a 73% grip on the tablet market while every…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s iPhone is continues gain popularity in the United States, according to a new research report published by Canaccord. The report also suggests that Research In Motion’s market share in the United States is still sliding. “Our February checks indicated that iPhone sales remained strong…
